Bequest to Metropolitan Opera Challenged
By Brad Wolverton
Representatives of Sybil B. Harrington, a Texas oil heiress who died in 1998, are suing the Metropolitan Opera, in New York, to recover $5-million of Mrs. Harrington's donations that they say were misappropriated by the organization. The opera has denied any wrongdoing.
Before she died, Mrs. Harrington requested that her money be used to pay for traditional...
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